Required Readings - Weeks 1 through 3, M of Week 4 (January 23 to
February 9):
Greenstein Chapter 1 (The Presidential Difference) & Chapter 2 (on FDR)
Russell Renka - The
Modern Presidency from Roosevelt through George W. Bush
Russell Renka - The New Deal Political Coalition
of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Russell Renka -
Roosevelt's Expansion of the Presidency
FDR elections -
1932,
1936,
1940,
1944
FDR Quiz
- February 2 to February 9 (before midnight) at UTest's Roosevelt Quiz - Spring 2009
Essay 1 on FDR - due by Friday, February 13 (Week 4) at midnight in
Drop Box
Sample Student Essay on FDR
Professor Renka's Roosevelt Links;
Miller Center's biography -
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Life in Brief
Timeline:
The
Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century - Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR as war leader: Miller Center's
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Foreign Affairs and American
Experience,
FDR Foreign Policy
FDR
Speech Files:
1) First Fireside Chat on Banking - full-length audio of
Banking
Crisis (3/12/1933); read along at "On the Banking Crisis";
also can review Volpe's text at
Banking
Crisis - Banishing Fear and Restoring Confidence; hear brief audio excerpt
from Am Pres Project (APP):
First
Fireside Chat
2) essay on word picturing from
"I hate war!" (8/14/1936); audio from APP -
Address at Chautauqua
3) National Archives audio -
"Four Freedoms" (1/06/1941); context and Norman Rockwell
portraits at National Archives,
Poster Art from World War II - Four Freedoms (general site:
Powers of Persuasion;
Parts I and II); alt. audio and text site: American Rhetoric,
Franklin Roosevelt - The Four Freedoms
4) audio excerpt from APP,
"My dog Fala" - Address at a Union Dinner, Washington, D.C.
(9/23/1944); alt. site:
FDR The 'Fala' Speech and excerpt of Fala part at President
Franklin Roosevelt defends his dog Fala (.ram file)
Links out to FDR speech sites:
-Miller Center's
Franklin D. Roosevelt Speeches
-The American President Project (APP)- Audio-Video
Archive - Franklin D. Roosevelt
-FDR Library's
Audio and Video clips
and Fireside Chats
by subject area and date -APP list of
Fireside Chats by dates
only
- Franklin Delano
Roosevelt Memorial Inscriptions from major speeches
General site for rhetorical presidency literature - Martin Medhurst's
Rhetorical Presidency syllabus, Spring 2008
Photographs:
-Russell Renka photo essay, FDR in wartime
-FDR Library's
Online Photos
-History Server's FDR images
1937 to 1939, and
WW2
Timeline
Key Terms and Points on FDR:
Historical and Political Key Terms;
Rhetorical Key Terms
History Links:
History: USA: 1930-1939
and History:
USA: 1940-1950 from US history Virtual Library
Richard Jensen's American Political
History On-Line - FDR